451 Nigerian Proverbs / Page 6
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Being happy is better than being king.102.
Better a single decision maker than a thousand advisors.103.
Birth is the only remedy against death.104.
Black goats must be caught early, before it gets dark.105.
By being grateful, a man makes himself deserving of yet another kindness.106.
Charms do not perform miracles on the shelf; they perform for those who are brave.107.
Children of the same mother do not always agree.108.
Choose your fellow traveller before you start on your journey.109.
Choose your neighbors before you buy your house.110.
Common proverbs of cooperation are:.111.
Courage is the father of success.112.
Criticism is easy but it does not create.113.
Dead though the oil-palm may be, the maggot in it lives on.114.
Does a man not know when he has pepper in his eyes? If we forget yesterday, how shall we remember tomorrow.115.
Don't ask me where I am going but where I have come from.116.
Don't look for speed in a cheap horse; be content if it neighs.117.
Earth is the queen of beds.118.
Even an old woman may run when a goat carries her snuff-box.119.
Even as the archer loves the arrow that flies, so too he loves the bow that remains constant in his hands.120.
Even in Mecca people make money.